Try explaining the negative impact of cultural appropriation to the wrong group of white people. I tried to do it on reddit once, which is admittedly not a good sample pool but I see the same stupid shit on Facebook where I'm much less likely to say anything remotely controversial. I guess you need to take Sociology 101 to have an informed opinion about race and gender discrimination instead of, y'know, listening to someone who doesn't look like you. I got a B.

Iggy Azalea makes me cringe. I hope she's not the start of a trend. When Macklemore won best rap album over Kendrick Lamarr he seemed uncomfortable. He's a talented guy but I think that discomfort came from a respect for the genre and a knowledge that he's playing outside his cultural sandbox. I'm not familiar with Kendrick Lamarr but I'm pretty certain his album's lead single was a lot deeper than buying used clothes.

when 'black' entertainment is no longer in the hands of black people, it loses the ability to draw attention to important issues.

It doesn't just do that, it slowly removes what was special and unique to that culture to the point where it's abandoned or loses what was its importance. You can make an argument that that's what happened to blues and rock around the fifties. The article mentions the negro spiritual building the foundation for most of our popular music, and if you look at history, most every genre that grew out of that has been co opted and removed from the cultural vocabulary of black people. Even country grew out of a fusion of folk and the blues.

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